starting your morning with us. >> we've got much more ahead on "cnn sunday morning" which starts right now. good morning everyone. i'm john berman. >> and this is a special edition of "cnn sunday morning" live from boston. >> let's get to the latest information on the marathon bombings. perhaps the only person who knows the motive for this attack is sedated with a tube running down his throat this morning. dzhokhar tsarnaev is in a boston hospital. he'll face federal terrorism charges, possibly also state murder charges here in massachusetts. meanwhile, at least 57 bombing victims are still in the hospital this morning. two of them in critical condition. investigators now also saying that evidence suggests the brothers acted alone. and we've learned more about the older brother who was killed in the friday morning shootout. the fbi says its agent interv w

interviewed tamerlan tsarnaev but did not find any ties to terrorism. even so the contact was reportedly enough to deny him american citizenship. we have reporters here in the u.s. and abroad with the latest on the attack. our national correspondent susan candiotti is at the hospital where the suspect is recovering. chris is at u. mass where the suspect went to school and nick paton-walsh. before we get to susan, we want to show you incredible video from the night dzhokhar tsarnaev was captured. these are thermal images. you can see dzhokhar is the dark images there. those are amazing pictures. then you'll see what appears to be a dark blast. >> that is what one of the flash bangs used to startle the suspect, that's just moments before the teenager was actually taken into custody and into the

hospital after suffering massive blood loss after a shootout with police. susan candiotti is going to join us live now. what do you know about his condition, susan? >> good morning, zoraida, because of those injuries to his throat investigators are unable to speak with him at the present time because he can't talk. but they'd like to because they have so many questions to find out. they figure he has a lot of secrets to tell them. even if suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev wanted to cooperate with the fbi, he couldn't. sources tell cnn because of injuries to his throat, the 19-year-old suspected terrorist bomber cannot talk yet. he's intu baited and sedated. >> hoping for a host of reasons that the suspect survives because we have a million questions. and those questions need to be

answered. >> in this photograph taken right after his arrest, the college student's neck area appears covered with blood. the younger brother's escape was busted when a man found him hiding in his backyard boat. a series of thermal images taken by a state police helicopter shows a white image of an object projecting heat. and another still photo you can make out the suspect's feet in black lying in the boat. a robotic arm moves in and lifts the tarp. watertown's police chief told cnn's wolf blitzer about those dramatic moments. >> we could tell he was alive and moving. we began the negotiations that way. and over a long period of time we were able to get him to surrender. >> agents yelled to him to give up. police say there was an exchange of gunfire. authorities have said tsarnaev's injuries mainly came during thursday night's shootout when

his brother was killed. fbi agents spent the day saturday combing over every inch of the boat collecting blood, hair, signs of explosives and more to build a case against the suspected boston marathon bomber. so because of his medical condition investigators will simply have to wait until doctors say it's all right for him to try to communicate with investigators. in the meantime, prosecutors are working up those terrorism charges that we might find out as early as today. zoraida. >> all right. susan candiotti live for us outside hospital. the university at dartmouth is set to reopen. the campus was evacuated friday as police tried to track him down. he of course was found in watertown. but school officials confirm he had been back on campus after that attack. >> that is stunning. and our chris lawrence is there

this morning. chris, what are students saying there? >> well, on one hand, john, they're shocked. this is someone they knew as dzhokhar and someone they hung out a lot, went to parties with, saw all the time, talked to all the time. so they're shocked at that aspect. and then on the other hand you've got the fact that, you know, within 48 hours of this bombing while the investigators were poring through thousands of photos and hours of video that dzhokhar was right here on the campus. they say he went to the gym and worked out. we talked to a couple students who saw him in the dorms walking down the hall. they live right down the hall from him and say it was just like normal. >> i was just shocked and i was just grateful that he didn't place a bomb in our building, you know, in our hallway. we live right next to the guy.

>> yeah. that's the sentiment we were getting from a lot of students. they say dzhokhar was someone who liked to play soccer. a couple students say they would occasionally smoke weed with him. that he just did not do anything that really stood out from other students. but they just can't get over the fact that within 48 hours of that bombing that he was back on campus and it was like nothing had ever happened. john. >> right. and also a lot of the students are saying it's really unnerving that somebody who appeared to be so normal actually could pull something like this off. so how is the campus helping the students cope with all of this? >> well, they've been pushed off campus. the students that we met we actually had to meet at a local hotel. they are some of the few who after the evacuation were not able to get parents or somebody to pick them up. so the school took a lot of them to a local hotel and put them up for a couple days. some of them were even saying,

you know, we had to run out of there so quickly, i wasn't able to grab my books. i couldn't grab my coat. things like that. so they're definitely looking forward to getting back on campus here later today. >> all right. chris lawrence, about an hour south of us at the university of massachusetts in dartmouth. our thanks to you. and we are learning more about the suspects from where they once lived this morning as well in russia. cnn's nick paton-walsh traveled near chechnya where he caught up with the suspect's father and able to dig up some new information about the suspect's past. >> it's hard to link boston boston's terror with a street so ordinary. the suspects father lives in the spotlight. at one point he drives past his own home and lets neighbors echo his disbelief what happened. i didn't think his kids, he says, could have done that. it's not true.

if someone preys anywhere, this means he's a terrorist. that's what it's like now. i don't believe any of this. anzor tsarnaev did stop outside his home briefly though. we don't really have a chance to properly air all you have to say about the circumstances you're in. so your sons didn't do this? are you going to america? when will you leave? forgive me, i know it's a difficult time for you. i'm simply trying to do my job. i understand. when was the last time you spoke to them? have you been in touch with the special services there? what did they have to say to

you? okay. i understand. i understand. official officially didn't go to school here long enough to be called locals. records show they came from kyrgyzstan and then became america's creation. these records show the four tsarnaev family members coming in 2001 from kyrgyzstan. and then leaving it says here to america the 25th of march 2002. they were with us for five months, he says. their formative years were in america, it's their culture. that's where they social socially matured. now, people are still trying to find out further information here. the father says he will go to the united states, as you heard. it's not clear whether he is still here. i spoke with him very briefly

this morning, but of course a man devastated by what he's finding out american official says the truth about his sons. zorida. >> all right, nick paton walsh in dagestan, russia, this morning. up next, a terrorism expert helps us understand what may have driven the attack. and we're learning more about the suspects' past. family members saying one suspect was brainwashed. mine was earned in djibouti, africa, 2004. the battle of bataan, 1942. [ all ] fort benning, georgia, in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans, and their families

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remembering the victims of the violence here in boston. krystle campbell, martin richard, lingzi lu all three killed at the finish line of the boston marathon and officer sean collier shot and killed thursday night while police searched for the suspects. and police officers and firefighters from all around the boston area saluted officer

collier as a hearse drove his body to a funeral home yesterday. police say it's not clear why one of the suspects shot and killed him. but collier had been responding to a loud disturbance at the time. the 26-year-old had been a police officer for just over a year. >> and new details are trickling in this morning about the bombing suspects and possible ties to islamic extremism. cnn foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty at the white house this morning. jill, you are also moscow bureau chief for nine years. you are very familiar with russia. what more do we know about the investigation into the older brother's behavior? >> okay. so that would have been the older brother of course is tamerlan tsarnaev. and we have to go back to early 2011 when the fsb, that's the investigative arms in russia, asked the fbi to talk to tsarnaev. they were concerned, the fsb, because they felt he had been

radicalized. and the fbi also says that somehow they believed he had changed in the last year and that he was going back to have some type of contact with radical islamist group. so the fbi talks with tsarnaev, they find nothing as they put it derogatory. and then in 2012 tamerlan tsarnaev goes back to russia. he goes back to visit his family in dagestan. he spends six months. and that, john, is where it's unclear precisely what happened at that point. back in the united states he creates a youtube channel. and on that channel he includes videos from some radical preachers. now, his uncle who was here in the united states in maryland ruslan tsarni, claims that his nephew was brainwashed. >> i said this person just took his brain, brainwashed him completely. tamerlan is off now. there's no obedience even to

respect his own father. >> and the person he's talking about although not named he says is an amenian converted to islam. a lot of questions about this. we still have to see whether there would be any direct link to any type of terrorist organization. >> what about the connection to chechnya? how does that affect things? >> well, there's certainly ethnic chechen. that area has been war torn for years. and then they were moving, the two brothers were born in kyrgyzstan, another place. and then they come to the united states. so talking with some experts in that region, they said that they may have been looking especially the older brother for their identity, who they were.

and when you google anything on chechnya, you come up with some brutal stuff about the war in chechnya, '94 and '96. and it could easily become a radicalization or self-radicalization procedure as one of these experts said. >> thanks. jill dougherty at the white house for us this morning. thanks so much. of the many, many questions authorities will have, perhaps one of the most important ones is whether he had any ties to a larger terror network that could be planning another attack. peter cross is a terrorism analyst. he's joining us this morning. peter, do you suspect that there are some ties? we hear that the older brother spent some time in russia. and that's the big question right now is what did he do while he was there. >> first off, i mean, obviously his father lives in russia. it's very possible he went over there for family ties. >> by the way, that is what his father says. he was laying low at home.

>> apparently he had some ties to al qaeda, that being said you can upload things without necessarily being tied to the organization. the fbi looked at him and didn't think hoe think he was a threat. he didn't demonstrate that much security when he hijacked the car, the cell phone was in there allowing the police to track them down. even if he met with one of these groups, he wasn't a highly trained operative. >> they checked him out. they looked back at him in 2011 at the request of the russians. why might the russians ask the fbi to look into this guy? and clearly the question so many people are asking right now is did the fbi miss something? >> i'd say first, after 9/11 in particular there's been increased intelligence sharing internationally. it's definitely possible the russians and united states said,

okay, he's a guy to keep an eye on. he's not now a u.s. citizen but living in the united states. that being said i'm not sure the fbi missed anything necessarily. i haven't seen access to the intel they have. but just having a couple youtube videos and pretending or saying that your more religiously devout isn't a crime or necessarily something that needs to be flagged. as we've talked about before and fbi directors have said there are thousands of individuals who share these belief and fewer that carry attack and even fewer, to say the fbi missed something here, i don't think we have nearly enough information yet. >> you've been watching the reports with all of us. dzhokhar, the 19-year-old in the hospital right now intubated and not being able to talk and answer questions, a lot of people are saying he was guided by his brother. that he in fact perhaps doesn't bear as much fault in all of this. what do you say to that? >> i have to say first and foremost we have to hear from him to get an idea. there are some signs. it seems the older brother was more ideological committed.

accounts from the friends and family of the brothers say the older brother was more domineering maybe either the younger brother looked up to or perhaps controlled to some degree. i think that's possible. we have seen things like that before. with the d.c. sniper case you had the older and younger dynamic with the mentor. i think we're hoping he comes to not so much we care about his health but more in the sense we want to find answers about why this happened. >> if in fact the older brother was radicalized, there are questions about when. was it during the six-month trip to russia in 2012? or people say he was showing signs as far back as 2009. explain to me radicalization, can it happen here in the united states? >> it actually can. and to be clear this case does seem like maybe religion played a role but doesn't have to by any means. one of the common themes across religions in this type of violence is being socially

disconnected from a community, a group. feeling you have to reach out to someone else to be more accepting of you. the older brother said i don't have any american friends, i don't feel like they don't understand me. i don't understand them. that's one of the major reasons going forward one of the most important things as a community is that we recognize these individuals, we put them to trial or the younger one to trial and hold them responsible for their crimes if they are in fact guilty. and also make sure we don't accuse people based on race or religion because the public was the most important aspect here in terms of capturing these people. the fbi did a great job, but the public tipped off where these people were and that's because they trust the government, they feel they have bonds to this community. that's something we make sure we doing going forward. falsely accusing people, et cetera is only going to make sure this tragedy becomes a much worse tragedy for this society. >> and we just don't know. >> we don't. and at the end of the day as i say you can be someone religious or envee some group but convene for personal reasons.

maybe they said we don't think you're worthwhile and you did this to show them you're a warrior. we're not sure of motivations at this point, but hopefully we'll find out in the coming weeks. >> a big question why boston, the marathon, we know the 19-year-old went back to the university, bizarre behavior. why the marathon? >> a couple things, one, again, 95% terror attacks are committed locally or close to where they grew up. they saw as a target of convenience close to where they were. also there's a connection to the caucas caucasus emirate, they said they were going to attack in 20 -- they did attack as perhaps a dry run, if there is a connection, there could be something about public sporting events. also maybe getting notoriety. it's a terrible attack in the sense we were able to get videos of these individuals. marathons are the type of event that's going to happen next year and this is a great opportunity

for the boston community to show it's resilient and come together and hopefully there's more spectators and runners than before. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning. appreciate it. the small town of west, texas, preparing to begin its new normal. other news going on in the country this after the fertilizer plant explosion devastated the area. we'll take you there as residents prepare this morning for sunday services. [ male announcer ] you could be at the corner of "medicare part d" and "up to 75% lower copays."

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across the country from boston to the town of west, texas, hundreds, maybe thousands are expected to turn out for

church services this morning. >> today is the first sunday after the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people. martin savidge is outside one of the largest churches in the area. martin, set the scene for us on this sunday morning. >> well, it's a beautiful day. good morning to both of you. this is st. mary's church of the assumption. it's a catholic church, and it is the largest here. not effected by the blast, directly. impacted though greatly because so many of the first responders that died in the explosion in wednesday night have connections to this church. some were married here, others attended here, some have family that go here. it is really sort of at the heart of the tragedy here. and all week long the people in this community, the survivors have been leaning on one another i guess you could say. today they're going to be leaning heavily on their faith. so they'll be gathering inside of this church for a number of masses. it's not a special mass, but of course you can understand why it's impactful mass.

let's talk about good news and that is people have started going home. about half the town was evacuated as a result of this disaster and they've been waiting to return. yesterday, the first few families were allowed to go back home. there were long lines at checkpoints. very strict rules. you can only go in 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. water in many places does not function because of the impact of the blast. but at least some people can go back as you would understand those who are returning are those farthest away from the blast site. still many more are returning and they hope to go back today, but it's going to be a while before everybody goes back home. 50 homes destroyed, not everybody will. >> martin, are investigators any closer to understanding why this happened? >> there are a lot of teams working at both the state and federal level. the fire marshal yesterday said they had finished up pretty much their initial investigation here, but it's going to take months.

what is being looked at very carefully is that fire because they believe it was the fire of course that triggered the explosion. somehow that fire caused the material inside of this fertilizer plant to ignite in a catastrophic way. so why did that fire start? an electrical short? wiring problem? something left on? a piece of mechanical equipment? they can't say, but it's key to know. and the reason it's key because facilities like this are in rural communities across the country, thousands of them. and so it's not just a mystery for this town, it is potentially trying to figure out to prevent a disaster in many other communities, zorida. >> there are a lot of people who are waiting for answers on that situation. martin savidge live for us in west, texas, thank you very much. and before we even knew who the suspects were, one prominent muslim said, please, god, don't let the boston marathon bombers be muslim. we're going to talk to that man to get his reaction now. neil and buzz: for teaching us that you can't create the future...

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>> of course we are live in boston to catch you up on the latest on the boston marathon bombing investigation and perhaps the only person who knows the motive for this attack is sedated with a tube running down his throat this morning. dzhokhar tsarnaev, he's under heavy guard right now at a boston hospital. officials say the 19-year-old will face federal terrorism charges and possibly state murder charges. >> investigators now also think he and his older brother acted alone. and the fbi says its agents interviewed that brother back in 2011 but didn't find any ties to terrorism at the time. even so the contact reportedly was enough to deny tamerlan tsarnaev american citizenship. for one muslim american his first thought after the bombings was "please, god, don't let the bomber be muslim." now we know that they are. >> remember, the fbi says there is no clear motive for the bombings. and there's no connection as now as far as we know to any jihadist group, although

tamerlan tsarnaev's youtube channel hints at islamic extremism, posting some videos and the like. and family members have commented on his religious changes over the last few years. with us now from chicago is senior editor at the islamic monthly magazine. he's the former of the muslimguide.com. when you found out the brothers were muslim, what was your first reaction? >> well, i think that, you know, obviously the vast majority of american muslims after 9/11 whenever there's an act of terrorism or mass murder whether it's the newtown, connecticut, school shooting or the aurora, colorado, dark knight batman killing, you know, the first thing comes to mind is please, god, don't let it be a muslim. we know that, you know, whenever there is an act of mass murder committed by a brown dude with a foreign sounding name, you know, it's something that casts a pal

upon the entire muslim american community. there are muslim marathon runners. we grieve with the country. this is an attack on all bostonians and americans regardless of race, religion or ethnicity. >> and how does it make you feel when you hear that there may be ties to islamic extremism, at least with the older brother? >> well, you know, i always tell people that, you know, islamic extremists are about as muslim as the westboro baptist church is christian. it doesn't make them a religious expert or vanguard for, you know, an entire faith of over a billion people. i mean, to the vast majority of american muslims these guys were crazy criminal losers. and they do not represent islam or muslims at all. you know, just like timothy

mcvay didn't represent christianity those his co-conspirator member of the christian movement. this is a time of americans of all faith, religions and ethnic backgrounds need to come together and help rally for the people of boston. >> how do you think the religion affects people's perception of the attack? >> that's a very good question, john. i think that perceptions, you know, were created in the very early parts of this investigation even before the tsarnaev brothers were named as suspects. as we all know there were several media outlets that erroneously reported that there was an arrest of a dark skinned male. and that helped to shape narratives also within the general american discourse that it was one of those other guys. you know, when we look at the, you know, aurora, colorado, dark knight batman massacre where people were kill and had

injured, it was a brown arab dude who thought of himself as the joker, we probably would have thought of it as an act of terrorism. terrorism in this country after 9/11 has sadly really only applied when brown dudes do something but not necessarily when white guys commit the same act of mass murder. >> are you concerned then about how this particular situation will have americans feel about muslims? >> well, you know, one of the silver linings, you know, in the last ten or 12 years is the increase in the number of interfaith outreaches that has happened all across the country at the local and national level between christian, jewish, muslim, hindu, buddhist, people of all faiths to come together, you know, to rally around each other as americans. i know mosques in boston have opened their doors. they've issued condemnation statements. muslim leaders like myself have called on, you know, local muslims in boston to donate, you know, their blood in blood drives for the victims of the

attacks. again, you know, there are muslim victims of the bombings. there was a saudi female doctor that was injured. you know, there were muslim female runners that were taking part in the boston marathon who have written about their experiences and how they were heartbroken, you know, for the people of boston. i grew up a boston celtics fan. this was an attack on all americans. this was not something that was, you know, discriminated at all. it affected people of all colors and all backgrounds. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us this morning and giving us your insight. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. we've been talking about the boston marathon attacks for almost a week now that has consumed us. there is other news happening in the country including one of the deadly u.s. avalanches in years. we will have an update on the colorado tragedy where five snowboarders lost their looifrs. stay with us. he's agreed to give it up. that's today?

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all right. this just in. rebels in dagestan, which is part of the region the russian north caucasus, they have denied any link to the boston bombings. in a statement on its website the group called the -- caucasus of the emirate dagestan says "the caucasian mujahideen are not fighting against the united states of america. we are at war with russia." there's been a lot of suspicion about whether their ties to the region fueled whatever actions they may have taken. there's a lot of militant groups that work within that area. but most of their gripes of late over the last actually half a century or more have been with

russia. most people saying they've seen no animosity directly towards the united states. and now at least one of these groups there saying that they are not responsible in any way for the attacks here. so that development just in. >> there was some concern because the older brother had spent time there in 2011 and nobody really knows what he went there to do. >> no. we should say just because one group is denying responsibility, does not mean there are others there who may in some way be connected. these are just the fledgling stages of the investigation and we hope to learn more over the coming days and weeks. other news here now in the united states. in colorado an avalanche killed five snowboarders right in the heart of the rocky mountains. >> this marks the state's deadliest avalanche in more than 50 years. there's remarkable news coming out of this tragedy, a sixth person who was buried in the snow managed to dig himself out and actually find help. cnn's nick valencia is joining us with more. what do we know about the sn

snowboarders and the survivor? >> good morning, john and zoraida. they were experienced snowboarders, they had all the proper equipment. we also and you mention just this remarkable story of survival. if it wasn't for the lone survivor, the sixth person in the group, it's likely this group would not have been found as quickly. the sheriff told me last night, zoraida, that he was buried waist deep in snow. was able to dig himself out of the snow. he walked 200 yards to the nearest highway at which point he flagged down somebody from the colorado department of transportation. the sheriff tells me this area where it happened in the mountains, it's hard to see. it's pinned back behind a valley. so it's very hard to see from the road. and it's likely that if this survivor didn't flag down workers, authorities would still be looking for this group this morning. zoraida. >> nick, you said they were prepared for an avalanche. they had all the correct gear there. is there a lot of concern typically this time of season about avalanches in colorado? >> well, just to put in

perspective for our viewers, john, they were in the back country. this is an area where experienced skiers and snowboarders go. any time you have an area with a large amount of snow, there's a chance for an avalanche. and the sheriff told me they had heavy snowfall there yesterday. we also understand that this area's a very popular area for snowboarders and skiers to go to even though it is in the back country. but we got a release earlier this morning, our national desk received an update saying that this is an avalanche that doubled the death toll in colorado's avalanche season this year. so far there have been at least 11 people to die this season in colorado avalanches. john. >> all right. nick valencia for us, thank you very much for that report. and fenway park reopened for the first time since monday's bombings here in boston creating just an awesome day for a city that really needed it. we have all the highlights up next. >> go red sox. mine was earned in djibouti, africa, 2004.

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so yesterday baseball returned to boston. and to some the reopening of fenway park, the green monster, signifies that things were beginning to get back to normal. cnn sport s andy scholes joinss with an update on this emotional and ultimately victorious day. >> there's no better way for the city of boston to return to a sense of normalcy than a good old packed house at fenway park. and that's what we saw yesterday. more than 35,000 strong on hand to cheer on the red sox in their first game back since the bombings. during emotional pregame ceremony the red sox honored all those effected by monday's tragedy and the law enforcement who helped capture the two suspects. at the end of the ceremony david ortiz took the mic to personally thank everyone involved and then used some strong words to deliver this message. >> this is our [ bleep ] city. and nobody going to dictate our

freedom. stay strong. thank you. >> big papi. you may notice something different about his uniform. instead of the normal home jerseys with red sox on the front, the team wore special uniforms with boston across the chest. red sox fans didn't get much to cheer about until -- a three-run home run right here into the red sox bullpen finally got a chance to go crazy. red sox take the lead and go onto get the win 4-3. meanwhile at the garden the bruins were back on the ice yesterday afternoon playing their game with the penguins that had been postponed on friday. during warmups the bruins wore state police, boston p.d. and watertown p.d. hats. for the game both teams wore special patches on their jerseys. they will be auctioned off tomorrow on nhl.com to the proceeds going to one fund. the celtics also wore special patches on their jerseys for yesterday's playoff opener in

new york against the knicks. boston led after three quarters but only scored eight points in the fourth. they fell 85-78 to the knicks. game two is tuesday night before the series shifts back to boston for game three on friday. and, guys, fenway going to be rocking again today as red sox play a double header to make up for friday's game. they have picked a good time to go on a winning streak. right now they've won seven in a row. they're the hottest team in the american league. >> a great winning streak. andy scholes, thank you so much. andy showed you that footage of david ortiz using somewhat naughty language in front of 35,000 fans. >> very naughty. >> an entire tv audience with millions of people watching, normally the fcc, the federal organization that tracks naughty language and issues penalties if people use bad words, but the chairman of the fcc tweeted this out yesterday saying david ortiz spoke from the heart at today's

red sox game. i stand with big papi and the people of boston. so the fcc giving david ortiz a free bat. just this once you can say that word. don't do it again, but just this once. rather nice. >> yeah. other news, the house homeland security chairman is no handle of how the fbi handled the bombing suspects. >> here is candy crowley in washington with "state of the union." tell us what texas congressman michael mccaul has said. >> they have written the fbi director and head of homeland security and dni and said, listen, we want any information you have, any contacts you have had about these suspects, in particular the older brother now deceased. they are concerned that the fbi might have missed something in the process. as you know, our reporting and

others that say that the russians had asked the u.s. to look into possible terrorist ties of the older brother. there you see him on the left of the screen. and in this letter that the congressman -- congressman mccaul and king wrote they brought up other past terrorist incidents that were missed. i want to read you a key line "five of these six intelligence failures have taken place since 2009. they raise the most serious questions about the efficacy of federal counterterrorism efforts." so seems to me they think there's a big hole here and they want to get into it and find out whether more should have been done, whether a red flag was raised and people missed it. as you know, there are lots of folks pushing back at that point saying there are also rules about if you can't find any -- if there is no terrorism connection that you can see and nothing criminal going on, you can't stalk the guy for several

years until he does something. so the question here is and the clear implication of this letter is they think that the feds may have dropped the ball on this. >> candy crowley, thank you so much. clearly a lot to talk about this morning on "state of the union." appreciate it. and stay here for "state of the union" which starts at the top of this hour 9:00 a.m. eastern, 6:00 a.m. pacific right here on cnn. millions of people show up to support runners today in lond london's marathon. and many wore their support for the boston bombing victims. we'll show you how they did it. that's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] this is a reason to look twice. this is a stunning work of technology. the 2013 lexus es and the first-ever es hybrid.

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an unbelievable feat by american tatyan amc fadden. she not only won the boston marathon women's wheelchair race last week, but -- >> she is now the winner of london's women wheelchair race earlier today. and she set a new record course as well. congratulations to her. >> a new record for her. and those participating in the london marathon today, they honor the victims of the boston bombing during the moment of silence. here's a clip from the bbc. >> people are also sporting black ribbons to honor all of the victims. our senior international correspondent dan rivers is live in london. dan, the british community has really shown their support for the boston bombing victims. share some of that with us. >> well, it's certainly not silent now as you can hear.

this is the bulk of the ordinary runners, if you can call them that, extraordinary really. we're coming up to the four-hour mark here. many of them i'd say about half of them are wearing those black ribbons in solidarity with the victims of boston. there is a really electric atmosphere down here. lots of people turning out, many more than normal to see this marathon. i think in part because of what happened in boston, many of them as well will be raising money for the victims in boston. the organizers here say they're going to donate $3 for every single person that comes past and finishes to the boston victims. so it is a fantastic atmosphere, so far thank goodness gone off without incident. >> it is wonderful that they are donating that money. it is wonderful to see and hear the enthusiasm, dan, all around you. if you can hear me, let's talk for a minute about security. did they increase security for today's event, and how?

>> they did a bit. yeah, they increased it by several hundred officers. about 40% more than last year. but i think they were pretty open about the fact they can't secure an entire 26-mile course through london. it's impossible. and routes here there are actually no police at all in front of the barriers here. there's nothing they can do. if there was a determined bomber who wanted to disrupt this, there's nothing they could really do along the course to prevent this. of course the start and the finish are much more secure, but along most of the route here you can see ordinary people and these extraordinary runners doing their thing. everyone hoping that there will not be a repeat. people defiantly coming out in support to show terrorists won't win. >> dan rivers along the boisterous route of the london marathon. >> i think he's at the halfway mark. >> we know you all